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We investigate extremal metrics at which various types of rigidity theorems involving scalar curvatures hold. The rigidity we discuss here is related to the rigidity theorems presented by Mario Listing in his previous preprint. More…

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The aim of the lectures is to introduce first-year Ph.D. students and research workers to the theory of the Dirac operator, spinor techniques, and their relevance for the theory of eigenvalues in Riemannian geometry. Topics: differential…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2007-05-23 Giampiero Esposito

We extend the groundbreaking results of Gromov and Lawson on positive scalar curvature and the Dirac operator on complete Riemannian manifolds to Dirac operators defined along the leaves of foliations of non-compact complete Riemannian…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Moulay Tahar Benameur , James L. Heitsch

We study the relationship between discrete analogues of Ricci and scalar curvature that are defined for point clouds and graphs. In the discrete setting, Ricci curvature is replaced by Ollivier-Ricci curvature. Scalar curvature can be…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-10-07 Abigail Hickok , Andrew J. Blumberg

This paper investigates conformal deformations of the scalar curvature and mean curvature on complete Riemannian manifolds with boundary. We establish sufficient conditions for the existence of conformal deformations to complete metrics…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Tiarlos Cruz , Almir Silva Santos

The main scalar-mean extremality and rigidity results in the existing literature concern manifolds whose curvature operators are nonnegative, or warped product spaces with a log-concave warping function whose leaves carry metrics of…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-12-08 Jinmin Wang , Zhizhang Xie

We establish several inequalities for manifolds with positive scalar curvature and, more generally, for the scalar curvature bounded from below, in the spirit of the classical bound on the distances between conjugates points in surfaces…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-10-30 Misha Gromov

Consider the class of n-dimensional Riemannian spin manifolds with bounded sectional curvatures and diameter, and almost non-negative scalar curvature. Let r=1 if n=2,3 and r=2^{[n/2]-1}+1 if n\geq 4. We show that if the square of the Dirac…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2008-02-25 Bernd Ammann , Chad Sprouse

We study the space of Riemannian metrics with positive scalar curvature on a compact manifold with boundary. These metrics extend a fixed boundary metric and take a product structure on a collar neighbourhood of the boundary. We show that…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2019-09-09 Mark Walsh

We show that knowledge of the source-to-solution map for the fractional Dirac operator acting over sections of a Hermitian vector bundle over a smooth closed connencted Riemannian manifold of dimension $m\geq 2$ determines uniquely the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-12-20 Hadrian Quan , Gunther Uhlmann

We show that the first five of the axioms we had formulated on spectral triples suffice (in a slightly stronger form) to characterize the spectral triples associated to smooth compact manifolds. The algebra, which is assumed to be…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2008-10-14 Alain Connes

We show that in every dimension $n \geq 8$, there exists a smooth closed manifold $M^n$ which does not admit a smooth positive scalar curvature ("psc") metric, but $M$ admits an $\mathrm{L}^\infty$-metric which is smooth and has psc outside…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Simone Cecchini , Georg Frenck , Rudolf Zeidler

We continue the study of the question of when a pseudo-Riemannain manifold can be locally characterised by its scalar polynomial curvature invariants (constructed from the Riemann tensor and its covariant derivatives). We make further use…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2015-05-18 S. Hervik , A. Coley

A Dirac-type operator on a complete Riemannian manifold is of Callias-type if its square is a Schr\"{o}dinger-type operator with a potential uniformly positive outside of a compact set. We develop the theory of Callias-type operators…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Simone Cecchini

We show the contractibility of spaces of invariant Riemannian metrics of positive scalar curvature on compact connected manifolds of dimension at least two, with and without boundary and equipped with compact Lie group actions. On manifolds…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Christian Baer , Bernhard Hanke

Employing the covariant language of two-spinors, we find what conditions a curved Lorentzian spacetime must satisfy for existence of a second order symmetry operator for the massive Dirac equation. The conditions are formulated as existence…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2023-02-02 Simon Jacobsson , Thomas Bäckdahl

The aim of this note is to study the measure-valued Ricci tensor on smooth metric measure space with boundary, which is a generalization of Bakry-Emery's modified Ricci tensor on weighted Riemannian manifold. As an application, we offer a…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-10-30 Bang-Xian Han

This paper studies Dirac operators on end-periodic spin manifolds of dimension at least 4. We provide a sufficient condition for such an operator to be Fredholm for a generic end-periodic metric; this condition is shown to be necessary in…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Daniel Ruberman , Nikolai Saveliev

Given a smooth compact manifold with boundary, we study variational properties of the volume functional and of the area functional of the boundary, restricted to the space of the Riemannian metrics with prescribed curvature. We obtain a…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2020-11-26 Tiarlos Cruz , Almir Silva Santos

The Gaussian curvature of a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold is uniquely determined by the choice of the metric. The formulas for computing the curvature in terms of components of the metric, in isothermal coordinates, involve the…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2013-11-11 Haakan Hedenmalm , Yolanda Perdomo